Dec 2014

Impulse is a community newsletter produced by the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) and distributed electronically at no cost to subscribers. We envision Impulse as an integrative source for local news, events, and thinking of interest to the psychoanalytically inclined. Our goal is to be your guide as you explore the Bay Area's rich array of analytic resources.

We invite you to become a member of NCSPP, if you are not already. And, we welcome you as a subscriber to Impulse. Join us as we highlight the exceptional diversity of psychoanalytic thought and practice in Northern California.

I initially chose to pursue therapy as a career because I wanted to help people by providing a magical cure. When I was confronted with the reality that this required work with no guarantees, I had to choose again whether this was something to which I could commit. There are days when it continues to be a struggle to hold onto my therapeutic sensibilities, but I continue to feel that I made the right decision.

Phuc Tran, who as a child barely escaped death in the last days before Saigon fell, speaks in a TED talk about how grammar and culture shape one another and create different worldviews. English, he notes, employs the subjunctive tense--the could haves, would haves, and should haves. It communicates hope, imagination, and possibility, but also regret and longing.

We here at NCSPP have a tiny secret for you - all these awesome events you attend, they are put on by a slew of tiny elves toiling away in a workshop. Okay! I lied!

All of the NCSPP events that you know and love are actually created, from the ground up, by an entire group of committed, engaged, thoughtful and generous individuals who volunteer their time to bring you the programming, editorials, and social events that you love.

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING IN PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY. The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley offers a two-year clinical training program to start September 11, 2015. Trainees work in the Institute's moderate fee clinic under intensive supervision (individual and group) by outstanding Bay Area clinicians. Seminars cover major theoretical and technical aspects of psychotherapy, and professional development. Eight positions are available. There is no fee, nor is there a salary or stipend. Contact Mark Bronnenberg, mbronnenberg@tpi-berkeley.org or visit:www.tpi-berkeley.org.

EARLY-CAREER DEVELOPMENT/CONSULTATION GROUP. Openings available for clinicians who would like to develop their skills in psychoanalytic psychotherapy while working on growing and maintaining a rewarding private practice. Thursdays 10 to 11:15 a.m. in Berkeley. For more info contact Carolina Bacchi, Psy.D., (510) 594-4314, drbacchi@gmail.com; or Adam Beyda, Psy.D., (510) 985-0362, drbeyda@sbcglobal.net.

About NCSPP

The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP) is committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and the encouragement of its interest in the professional and general communities. We are a multi-disciplinary, non-profit membership organization open to mental health professionals and all others interested in the study of psychoanalytic psychology.

Our more than 650 members form a community that spans the greater Bay Area and Northern California. NCSPP is a local affiliate of Division 39 (psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. Our vast array of lectures, intensive study groups, scientific meetings, courses, our journal fort da, and numerous special events and projects are all brought to you by scores of volunteers who work to support NCSPP’s mission. Our educational programs include continuing education credit for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and licensed clinical social workers. We welcome you into the psychoanalytic community in Northern California. Join us.

Each month, Impulse reaches over 1,830 psychoanalytically interested professionals and students in Northern California.

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